What do you think about this diet?

It’s not a balanced diet. I’d imagine it’d end up being counter productive as eating such few calories will make you crave food and you might end up binge eating.
I’d up my intake of fibre and complex carbohydrates so you’ll have more energy to get you throughout the day. Throw in some exercise throughout the week and you’re bound to lose weight in a healthy way. Good luck.

I don’t think it sounds particularly healthy. Plus, if you don’t eat enough you’re more likely to “binge eat”. You might lose weight on this diet, but I’d wager that you’ll be unhealthy and you’ll feel bad.

Also, bottled water is a scam. If the water in your area is healthy drink from your tap. It’s free.

I don’t see protein except for possibly in the soup.

@zenvelo Yeah I think 3 of the 7 days there’ll be some protein in the soup. @Soupy I eat well now, and I’m fat, and I already feel bad. Trust me, being as skinny as I was in senior year will not be unhealthy. I’m 5’7 175. I need to get down to 145. Personally for me, eating 3 meals a day is irrelevant. All my body is doing is storing the fat because I’m not as active as I was when I was a teen.

This diet does not have enough protein or complex carbs. You don’t need a lot of protein, just enough. The portion size is dependent on the protein choice. The same holds true for complex carbs. Any body needs whole grains, such as rice, wheat germ, oatmeal, etc.; just not a lot. It also desperately craves vegetables. Most spring and summer vegetables in the U.S.A. are so low calorie that you can eat as much as you want. Fall and winter vegetables, such as potatoes, squashes, sweet peas, sweet corn and sweet tomatoes have higher starch and sugar contents so should be limited to about 4 ounces per day.

Try looking up portion sizes at nutrition websites such as http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/portion_size.html or here: http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/portion-sizes.aspx
which says this:
Portion Control: Sizing Up Total Daily Portions

According to the USDA, current daily recommendations for a 2,000-calorie diet include:

5½ ounces of lean meat or 1¼ cups cooked beans
2½ cups of vegetables
2 cups of fruit
3 cups of low-fat or fat-free milk or the equivalent dairy products
3+ ounces of whole-grain products

You should be able to find the breakdown for a 1500 calorie diet as well, which should encourage your body to take off 2–3 pounds per week. Anything less than 1500 cals and most bodies head for starvation mode. And then you’re stuck not losing the weight as desired, which sucks.

yikes…...looks horrible.
soups and fruit and juice.

You need some veggies.

It sounds like you made that diet up yourself. You’d need a professional to oversee your health if you went on such a diet, other wise you could get sick as is suggested above. Follow that diet for 2 weeks at the most and then get on a diet which will take longer but will be more healthy for you. There are excellent answers here with healthy suggestions. How long did it take to put on the weight you want to take off? Plan on taking at least that long to take it off, otherwise it may not stay off.

oh yeah: Anything less than 1500 cals and most bodies head for starvation mode. And then you’re stuck not losing the weight as desired, which sucks. Been there, done that :(

What everyone said above – by starving yourself, you’ll lose fat, but also muscle (which burns more calories), and destroy your metabolism (and your hair, and nails, and skin…).

I would recommend focusing your efforts on trying to fit in some exercise, even if your schedule sucks.

I second everyone’s comments.
Well, basically it’s not as diverse as it could be. I think you need your fair share of .. well everything. Yes, even sugar.
“Well, there’s some value to taking a multi-vitamin but the human body can only absorb so much. What you’re buying here are the ingredients for very expensive urine.”-Sheldon Cooper
I think the only thing you should do is intense cardio workout and eating less carbs/sugar.
This is important.

@whitetigress Being as thin as you were in senior year might not be unhealthy, but you WILL be unhealthy if you eat only what you’ve laid out in your diet there. You’re lacking several very important things, vegetables, protein, and carbs to name a few things. You might lose weight, you might have no issue with binge eating, but you will not be a healthy person.

Please run this diet past a doctor or dietician first, so they can tell you how bad for you it is and help you plan something sensible and healthy.

Eat less, exercise more.

Putting yourself on some strict regimen will only guarantee that you’ll fail. If you are worried that your exercise level will be dropping off, then just eat less of your normal (well balanced) diet.

Hey all!! Super appreciate the advice. I’ve been thinking about incorporating a serving of solid vegetables and fish at night.

@whitetigress That would be a great addition.

Can you eat nuts? If so then get yourself some walnuts, pecans, brazils and almonds to put in a ziplock bag, all mixed up. Eat 7–10 of these along with your morning banana. Can you eat yogurt? Eat a yogurt with your banana and nuts or rotate daily- yogurt, an egg, piece of chicken or whatever with your breakfast banana.

With lunch, can you eat a little scoop of cottage cheese with your soup or a little piece of fish/meat? It’s not a lunch meal that will sink you because you’re still up and about, burning calories, flushing salt & sugar.

Dinners you can pretty much starve away because you’re just going to sleep. Eat a gigantic bowl of greens with a little cheese in there or diced egg. Have a fruit for desert and let yourself have a spoonful of a few different sorbets or ice creams you keep in the freezer. Do you like blueberries, raspberries, cherries, strawberries? Buy some frozen mixed berry bags and eat a handful’s amount when you get a sweet tooth. A piece of chocolate isn’t going to kill you either if it’s the size of a Hershey’s miniature or Ande’s Mint.